I play here because I like how the game was in WOTLK, and I feel Blizzard has slowly made changes to the game to cater to the lazy and solo players. An MMORPG should be all about working/playing together with other players and immersion in a virtual, beautiful fantasy world. When you make everything doable by ones self, you are not encouraging interaction between players. When you make everything you need to progress in the game available to you in one or two cities, you detract from the immersion. I play Warmane because WOTLK was the last expansion, imo, to do this adequately.
And it has the population to make it feel like an mmo.
I play only mop here, because of the higher number of players, not having to wait 15 minutes to enter bgs or arenas and so on. If it wasnt for that would have played on non international mop servers as pretty much any of those servers are much much better than warmane and they fix at least 10 times more things than here (real fixes not quest and npcs, srsly stacking buffs after a year?!). Wotlk no way gonna play it here with 1 k ppl with shadowmourne as i'm not masochist.
Lordaeron won't have that, so you might consider that. :p
Although it's ''possible'' that people will have the ability to donate ICC gear when all of Icecrown Citadel is released so technically yes but minus the Shadowmourne :)
Been at many different servers, with better or worse scripts, better or worse community, etc. I always continue to come back here.
Why? Well, It has always been somewhat of a "safe haven", many of those "High quality servers" I've played before, even having very good scripts end up dead, people get tired, population gets too low, managers decide to close it, stupid elitist jerks end up ruining a big part of the community (a single guild can have a large impact in the population of a server with 400-800 people), and so on.
I've been through so much rotten bul**** in the malign tumor that is free WoW private servers that I still wonder why, why do I keep coming back to this place? I feel okay here, like It is never going to die out, explode or dissapear. It has been the most consistent and durable server in the history of privates, It has endured so much crap, so much hate and spite, that I can only feel related. It has its flaws, but they have become part of the charm of it. I was here when It released, when no instance was doable because of bugs, when the Lich King came out and was killed, when Cata was an absolute mess, when it got updated to 4.3.4, when Firelands came out and I had the precious chance to participate in one of the few first nonexploited Ragnaros HC kills, when the database was lost and everything was deleted.
Now back again here with the Lordaeron release, I'm leveling a char for the... can't really tell what time this is. I just know that I'm enjoying it, and I'll probably keep doing it. Been in many places playing WoW, even retail, but I can still call this one home